Classics (School of): Recent submissions

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    • Ancient weather signs : texts, science and tradition 

      Beardmore, Michael Ian (2013) - Thesis
      This thesis offers a new contextualisation of weather signs, naturally occurring terrestrial indicators of weather change (from, for example, animals, plants and atmospheric phenomena), in antiquity. It asks how the utility ...

    • Leadership and individuality in the Athenian funeral orations 

      Hesk, Jon (2013-06) - Journal article
      Athenian funeral orations did not simply celebrate Athenian military achievements or renew and augment a specifically anonymous collective identity and hoplite ideology. Rather, the speeches also model the role and importance ...

    • Re-constructing the slave: an examination of slave representation in the Greek polis 

      Joss, Kelly (2006) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the ways in which slaves are represented in classical Greek sources. The aim of this study is to examine the ideology which informed Greek depictions of slaves. Through such an analysis, we can learn ...

    • Visuality, art and ecphrasis in the Monobiblos of Propertius 

      Freeman, Rod (2013) - Thesis
      In this thesis I argue that the conflation of puella, art and godhead in Propertius 2.31 and the succeeding 2.32 strongly impacts upon the opening book, the Monobiblos, of the same author. The dynamic of vision, the ...

    • Cult associations in the post-classical polis 

      Steinhauer, Julietta (2013) - Thesis
      This thesis investigates the emergence, spread and characteristics of voluntary associations in the Greek cities of the Aegean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. It is based on archaeological and epigraphic evidence ...